• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    17 days ago

    I was just thinking about this factoid the other day.

    More evidence of the secret brain chip that must have been implanted one day while I was drunk…

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        15 days ago

        Fun Fact/Factoid, use to be true, but like everything else, we’ve used it wrong for so long it’s considered to be either

        A factoid was originally defined to mean a false statement presented as a fact.[1][2] In colloquial speech, it is often used to mean a true but brief or trivial item of news or information (which can be less ambiguously described as a “factlet”).

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid

        an insignificant or trivial fact.

        something fictitious or unsubstantiated that is presented as fact, devised especially to gain publicity and accepted because of constant repetition.

        https://www.dictionary.com/browse/factoid